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...stock in the business he had bought for $2,500 in 1951. Elden: who had strung Army field wire at $14 a mile to add to the 100 or so subscribers he began with. Elden: who had tinkered with one secondhand switchboard after another-Western Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Northern Electric. Elden: who had pulled himself out of bed to man the phones more midnights than he cares to remember, wakened by a night-alarm gong from the switchboard and a kick or two from his wife Barbara, who with her daughter Susan may have logged more hours than...
...entrust the nation's fate in a crisis, it would be George Shultz." Soft-spoken and unassuming, Shultz provokes that kind of reaction from most of those who have worked with him. "He does his homework, he hears people out, and he is a consensus maker," says Jack Carlson, who served under Shultz at the Office of Management and Budget...
...will produce 400,000 new housing starts and provide 700,000 jobs. Most experts, however, predict that the measure will create, at best, a few thousand more homes. Even the National Association of Realtors, which would benefit from the bill, doubts that the program would work. Said Jack Carlson, chief economist for the trade group: "Getting down the deficit is the only solution...
...WKRP in Cincinnati," he volunteered, his bald head waxing nostalgic. "They were like us too-a tiny, not very successful radio station whose employees were never quite resourceful or ruthless enough to be No. 1. I always thought of them as human Muppets. Dynel Andy and soft, squeezable Mr. Carlson tried to keep their charges in order. But Venus Flytrap and Johnny Fever, the disc jockeys, were too weird, and Les Nessman too straight, and Bailey too nice-a little like you, Mary-and Herb Tarlek too wonderfully oafish to realize he'd never make the big score...
Some physicians remain cautious about the ultimate potential of computer colleagues. Says Stanford Oncology Fellow Bob Carlson: "My reaction is mixed. The system is very good for data gathering, but for its recommendations of drugs and treatments, it's in its infancy." But knowledgeable physicians predict that consultation by diagnostic computers will soon be widespread. Sums up Szolovits: "The computer doesn't get tired, and it doesn't forget things." Or, one assumes, play golf every Wednesday afternoon...